On today’s episode, we’re joined by Brian Donovan, author of Not a Match: My True Tales of Online Dating Disasters. He’s survived over a hundred awkward, weird, and downright frightening internet dates and joins us to tell the tale. We also celebrate the extremely funny Youtube comedy series The Most Popular Girls in School, which is basically grown men playing with Barbies. Plus a great Report Card and shoutouts to our devoted Likers!

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Super Bowl Blackout Madness

In the open, Alpine talks about some of his favorite tweets of the Super Bowl blackout:

And then there’s the adventures of the LASTMAN competitors — guys who are trying to go as long as possible without finding out who won the Super Bowl — becoming the “last man” in America to possess “the Knowledge” about the Ravens’ victory.

Internet Report Card

We open the report card by talking about Bang With Friends, a new app that promises to connect you with Facebook friends who are “down to bang.”

The idea is actually pretty brilliant, but the execution is sketchy. The creators seem kinda dumb and/or douchey — do we really want to trust someone with the email address “pimpin@bangwithfriends.com” with personal information about our bang preferences?

This animal is 100% real, lives in Asia, and looks like a Star Wars creature. This video is amazing.

Agency Wank is a tumblr that highlights the worst of the worst in ad agency website copy.

You’d think the people who do this stuff for a living would do a great job with their own sites and brands…but you’d be wrong. Unfortunately the blogger looks to have been scared off the internet by his angry peers, but the collection housed on the site is still worth more than a few good laughs.

Our Musical Guest

Brooklyn band Widowspeak has been a favorite of this website since their self-titled debut, with an entry in our Best of 2011 countdown noting, “I’m all in on songs like ‘In the Pines’ and ‘Gun Shy.’ They sound like the music that’d be playing on the soundtrack as our heroes head off to an epic and possibly disastrous showdown in the third act of the film. Put it this way, blood will be spilt.”

Now the band, composed of singer Molly Hamilton and axeman Robert Earl Thomas, have returned with their second album Almanac. It’s righteously awesome, blending gorgeous western-styled country rock with Brooklyn cool and a creepy malevolence that lurks just below the surface.

Internet Challenge Surprise

Like half the internet, we just discovered the magic of The Most Popular Girls In School, a webseries that’s been running since 2011 and is currently building up a ton of buzz heading towards its 2nd season. As Know Your Meme points out, this show’s popularity exploded in January through an orgy of reblogging and spinoff humor on Tumblr.

Here’s the masterful first episode, which launches a 13-ep run of absurdity and hyper-quotability:

This amazing show is primarily the creation of Mark Cope, Carlo Moss and Lily Vonnegut, but features a brilliant cast of voice actors and amusingly modified dolls.

Shoutout to the Likers!

Our Liker of the Fortnight is Liker Brad N “from the Internets” (actually, Austin) — he found our podcast on Stitcher and has been a reliable contributor ever since! Thanks to Brad for being such a loyal Liker and one of the pillars of the “Posts By Others” section on our FB page.

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